Lamp posts at each corner of War Memorial is a Grade II listed building in the Rochdale local planning authority area, England. First listed on 12 February 1985. Lamp post. 1 related planning application.

Lamp posts at each corner of War Memorial

WRENN ID
hushed-storey-hyssop
Grade
II
Local Planning Authority
Rochdale
Constituency
Rochdale MP: Paul Waugh (Lab)
Country
England
Date first listed
12 February 1985
Type
Lamp post
Address
Lamp posts at each corner of War Memorial, The Esplanade, OL1 1AB
OS grid reference
SD 895 133
Coordinates
53.6163, -2.16
Source
Historic England listing

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Description

The lamp posts at each corner of the War Memorial were built around 1920. They feature a granite base with a cast iron pylon and decorative details. Each fluted cast iron pylon base rests on a weathered granite plinth. The pylon is a tapering square-section latticework design with a central cartouche, topped by another cartouche set between diagonal scrolls. This supports a moulded pedestal and a large cuboidal box with chamfered corners, which has crossed torches moulded on its outer face. Each lamp post is equipped with two spherical white lampshades that hang from baluster-like drops attached to two moulded arms on either side of the cuboidal box. The box is finished with a small festooned pedestal that has a cornice and a classical finial. The four lamp posts are positioned at 45 degrees to the War Memorial and are located at each corner.

Local climate

Lamp posts at each corner of War Memorial sits in a wetter-than-average part of the UK, with an average of 1,110 mm of rain a year. This makes it wetter than 88% of listed buildings in the UK. Its exposure to wind-driven rain is greater than that of 81% of listed buildings.

It experiences an average of 50 freeze-thaw cycles a year, more than 92% of listed buildings. Of these, 28 follow at least 1 mm of rain in the preceding 48 hours. Average temperatures at this location have risen by 0.3°C per decade since 1991.

Averages for 1991–2020; temperature trend 1991–2025. Figures describe the wider area (a grid cell of roughly 10 km), not the individual site. Contains modified Copernicus Climate Change Service information 2026.

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